diff --git a/main_test.go b/main_test.go
index ac9c866..fa30a35 100644
--- a/main_test.go
+++ b/main_test.go
@@ -293,9 +293,10 @@ func TestUpdatedLog(t *testing.T) {
 	os.Args = []string{"ngtop"}
 	_, spec := querySpecFromCLI()
 
-	previousOffset, err := logFile.Write([]byte(`xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:00:28 +0000] "GET /feed HTTP/1.1" 301 169 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
+	bytesWritten, err := logFile.Write([]byte(`xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:00:28 +0000] "GET /feed HTTP/1.1" 301 169 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
 xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:00:30 +0000] "GET /feed HTTP/1.1" 301 169 "-" "feedi/0.1.0 (+https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi)"`))
 	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	previousOffset := bytesWritten
 
 	err = loadLogs(parser, logFile.Name(), dbs)
 	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
@@ -304,16 +305,37 @@ xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:00:30 +0000] "GET /feed HTTP/1.1" 301 169 "-" "f
 	assertEqual(t, rows[0][0], "2")
 
 	// append more logs to file
-	_, err = logFile.WriteAt([]byte(`xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:00:56 +0000] "GET /blog/deconstructing-the-role-playing-videogame/ HTTP/1.1" 200 14224 "-" "feedi/0.1.0 (+https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi)"
+	bytesWritten, err = logFile.WriteAt([]byte(`
+xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:00:56 +0000] "GET /blog/deconstructing-the-role-playing-videogame/ HTTP/1.1" 200 14224 "-" "feedi/0.1.0 (+https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi)"
 xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:01:18 +0000] "GET /feed.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 9641 "https://olano.dev/feed.xml" "FreshRSS/1.24.0 (Linux; https://freshrss.org)"`), int64(previousOffset))
 	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	previousOffset += bytesWritten
+
+	// run again with more entries and expect to see new requests
+	err = loadLogs(parser, logFile.Name(), dbs)
+	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	_, rows, err = dbs.QueryTop(spec)
+	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	assertEqual(t, rows[0][0], "4")
 
-	// run again and expect to see new requests
+	// run again without more entries, count should be the same
 	err = loadLogs(parser, logFile.Name(), dbs)
 	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
 	_, rows, err = dbs.QueryTop(spec)
 	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
 	assertEqual(t, rows[0][0], "4")
+
+	// append another one with the same date as the previous last one
+	_, err = logFile.WriteAt([]byte(`
+xx.xx.xx.xx - - [24/Jul/2024:00:01:18 +0000] "GET /blog/deconstructing-the-role-playing-videogame/ HTTP/1.1" 200 14224 "-" "feedi/0.1.0 (+https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi)"`), int64(previousOffset))
+	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+
+	// check that the new request is added even though it has the same date as the cut out one
+	err = loadLogs(parser, logFile.Name(), dbs)
+	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	_, rows, err = dbs.QueryTop(spec)
+	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	assertEqual(t, rows[0][0], "5")
 }
 
 // ------ HELPERS --------
diff --git a/ngtop/db.go b/ngtop/db.go
index fb293cc..24bac45 100644
--- a/ngtop/db.go
+++ b/ngtop/db.go
@@ -64,10 +64,23 @@ func (dbs *DBSession) Close() {
 
 // Prepare a transaction to insert a new batch of log entries, returning the time of the last seen log entry.
 func (dbs *DBSession) PrepareForUpdate() (*time.Time, error) {
+	// we want to avoid processed files that were already processed in the past.  but we still want to add new log entries
+	// from the most recent files, which may have been extended since we last saw them.
+	// Since there is no "uniqueness" in logs (even the same ip can make the same request at the same second ---I checked),
+	// I remove the entries with the highest timestamp, and load everything up until including that timestamp but not older.
+	// The assumption is that any processing was completely finished, not interrupted.
+
 	var lastSeenTimeStr string
 	var lastSeemTime *time.Time
 	// this query error is acceptable in case of db not exists or empty
 	if err := dbs.db.QueryRow("SELECT max(time) FROM access_logs").Scan(&lastSeenTimeStr); err == nil {
+		query := "DELETE FROM access_logs WHERE time = ?"
+		_, err := dbs.db.Exec(query, lastSeenTimeStr)
+		log.Printf("query: %s %s\n", query, lastSeenTimeStr)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
 		t, _ := time.Parse(DB_DATE_LAYOUT, lastSeenTimeStr)
 		lastSeemTime = &t
 	}
diff --git a/ngtop/parser.go b/ngtop/parser.go
index f463696..cd83062 100644
--- a/ngtop/parser.go
+++ b/ngtop/parser.go
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ func (parser LogParser) Parse(
 			}
 
 			if untilStr != "" && values["time"] < untilStr {
-				// if this file contains entries older than the untilStr, it means we already parsed part of it before
-				// since the files contains oldest entries at the beginning, we need to keep parsing until the end to get
+				// If this file contains entries older than the untilStr, it means we already parsed part of it before.
+				// Since the files contains oldest entries at the beginning, we need to keep parsing until the end to get
 				// all the updates, but we flag it as already seen so we skip parsing newer ones
 				alreadySeenFile = true
 				continue